In the 525 days between April 6, 1917 and November 11, 1918, the U.S. Army grew 1,700-percent, from 213.557 to 3,685,458 troops.

Between 1954 and 1999 the number of aircraft in the U.S. Navy destroyed in accidents fell by nearly 98-pecent, from 776 to 22.

The French Line, which operated luxury liners – Normandie, France – on the Atlantic for over a century, was founded in 1862 for the purpose of transporting troops to take part in the French conquest of Mexico

The first woman to attain the rank of lieutenant colonel in any army was Marto Maurogenos, a partisan leader who fought in the Greek War for Independence (1821-1826)

During the Korean War only five American carrier-based aircraft were shot down in air-to-air combat.

By June 30, 1879 the Civil War, plus attendant pensions and the cost of occupying portions of the South until 1877, had cost the federal government $6,187,243,385 and some cents, about three times the estimated cost of human beings held as slaves in the United States in 1860.

During the Gulf War about 85-percent of equipment, arms, and supplies were moved into the theater by sea, and only about 15-percent by air.

By early 1917 German rifle production was peaking at some 250,000 a month, more than the army actually needed.